Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the twice weekly podcast with me, Steve Richards.

Thank you so much for tuning in wherever you are in the UK

and indeed around the rest of the world. And welcome to our Easter question time special.

Yeah, it's the Easter recess, Easter holidays.

The Rock and Roll Politics Cooperative is scattered around the world and the UK.

And we are going to have a question time special in our time together.

That doesn't mean we're going to be slacking in any way at all.

None of this kind of holiday laziness for us, lot, but it will be via the questions, your brilliant questions, that we will together be making sense of a range of

different themes. We've got the latest on Kirstama, Brexit, the media, big, big themes for us to try and make sense of in our time together during

this podcast. So first of all, I hope you're having a good time. I kind of like the lull. I'm not a

fan of the kind of whole Christmas thing and all the rest of it,

but I like the pause at Christmas, the pause at Easter,

the sense that things are not quite as frenzied as usual.

Time for us to do some more baking and running and that kind of thing.

Anyway, I hope you're all having a good time.

Just a few notices about my never-ending tour.

Thanks all of you who came to, yeah, the Witham in Barnacastle, somewhere else as well. I can't remember.

Coming up, I think I'm on at the opening night of the Cambridge Book Festival.

And that's on Thursday, April the 20th.

Then the full live show on April the 24th at the Old Market Theatre in Brighton, a brand new show.

So all of you on the South Coast come along. Eve of the May local elections,

who knows what will be going on by then, but we will be having to gather together and make

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